Voters will decide on Feb. 9 on the six-year Buildings, Technology and Academics IV (BTA IV) Capital Levy. It would replace an expiring levy (BTA III) that voters approved in 2010. It would provide $335.4 million for building improvements; $104.7 million for technology upgrades; and $35.2 million for academic and athletic enhancements.

The money generated by the levy would enable Seattle to reopen three shuttered campuses as elementary schools--E.C. Hughes, Magnolia and Webster--and provide an additional 1,500 seats to accommodate projected growth in student enrollment.

In addition, the district would use levy funds to construct a 500-student addition at Ingraham High School.

Seattle experienced enrollment declines in the early 2000s, but since its numbers bottomed out in 2007, the district has added more than 7,000 students--its enrollment in October 2015 was 52,324. As the city continues to grow steadily, school officials expect students numbers to increase for the next decade.